Posted on: Tuesday, October 21, 2003

Ex-screeners' suit alleges discrimination at Maui airport

Advertiser Staff

Five former Maui airport security screeners who worked for the federal Transportation Security Administration are suing the agency and TSA officials in Hawai'i, claiming they were subjected to race and age discrimination.

The lawsuit was filed yesterday in federal court by Honolulu attorney Michael Green on behalf of former security screeners Lucas Bruno III, Christopher Gahr, Frank Robert Paulson, Charles Turner and Tom Young. Each of the men is over 40 years of age and Caucasian, the lawsuit said.

The men claim they were "written up" without cause, subjected to race-based verbal abuse and were overlooked for promotions because they are Caucasian.

They are asking for an unspecified amount of general, special and punitive damages.